Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-23
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TELEGRApH1C NEWS.
Terrible Cyclones.


ing at about $50 o'clock. There were IL
killed at different points throughout the
county and an incalculable amount OF
damage was done to all kinds of property.
Prescott was literally wiped out OF existence,
not single building being left standing to
mark the site Of once prosperous ana
thriving place. Reports are coming IN
from all over the country of damage by the
terrible Storm. 1t was genuine cyclone
but came from the northwest instead of the
southwest as is usual Hail fell all over the
county, some stones, measuring 13 inches in
circumference.
KANSAS CITY, April 23.-The Times
Prescott, Kan, special gives the following
list of casualties from the cyclone. The
killed as reported are Is, namely Constable
Jake Stephens, Will McHale, Mrs. Sarah
Crone, P. Flynn and three children, Jacob
Breach and wife, Mrs. Richard Hardness,
Mrs. Douglass Walter and infant, an infant
of s. P. Dennipg, one OF Joe Duncan and
year.old child of Will McHale. The seri.
ously injured are Jim Waldridge, arm
broken; Ed Horn, back hurt and arm
broken; Geo. White, arm broken j.. c. Kin.
sey, severe contusions William Campbell,
struck by timbers and feared will die. On
the farm of Richard darkness he, with his
wife, four children, and Miss Minick, of
Oakland, ILL.,. visiting the family, were in
the house. The building was taken up bod
ily carried 200 yards and dropped in an or
chard, crashing upon large apple tree.
All the occupants were hurt very seriously,
and Mrs. Hardness was killed.
The Methodist Episcopal church and six
houses, atSprague, were demolished. Every
farmhouse in the path of the storm was de-
molished, and every house in Prescott was
ruined Four miles from Prescott, Mr.
Films fine residence was mashed fiat, and
Mrs Finn and three small children NOR
tally injured and two visitors dangerously
hurt. Jacob Brook and wife, and one son;
VIM. McPod and wife and child, also of
this vicinity, were fatally injured.
Nearly every house at Miami Junction,
FIVE miles north of Prescott, was
blown down and several persons injured.
Seventeen persons are known to have been
killed in Lynn county and about fifty were
seriously wounded.
In Bourbon county, Kansas, reports are
coming in slowly of terrible devastation.
D. J. Fields farm was swept clean of build
ings and live stock Nearby the Mills fam
lily was nearly exterminated, two children
and the father and mother being killed and
a niece aud child were found barely alive
but will recover. The stone residence Of
Samuel Coles was RACED to the ground.
In Anderson county the cyclone badly
damaged the town of Colony. At Blue
Mound. town OF 900 inhabitants, twenty
houses were wrecked and two persons were
killed
A few miles from this scene w. S. Gogat,
Mrs. M. U. Bell, Mr.. Hogan, wife and two
children had taken refuge in storm cellar,
when eight COWS fell on them through the
roof and all were severely hurt. William
Browninburg's family found refuge in
storm cave, while $1,000 house was scat.
tered over the fields. Ten miles northwest
of Prescott Mrs. Sarah Crane waa killed and
her family injured by the crushing of the
house. la distance of % miles only one
house is known to have stood thu storm
II. G. Trip, of Kansas City, was standing
in the door of Manlove Brothers. grocery
store in Prescott when the building was de.
stroyed and be was killed.
ST.. LOUIS, April 23.-Specia dispa ches
published this morning show that fearful
cyclones, tornadoes and hailstorms swept
over o considerable part of Western and |
Southwestern Missouri, Southeastern Kan
sas and Northern Arkansas on Thursday
evening last, causing great loss of life and
destruction of property as well as manning
q large number of people.
In Bates and Vernon Counties, Mo-, the
destruction was very great. West and
south of Rich Hill the storm ragged
with terrific violence and its track is strewn
for miles with all kinds of debris, including
crushed and splintered dwellings and out
houses, dead animals and poultry, bed
wearing apparel and all kinds of
farm property. The estimated loss to pro.
perty is upwards of 100000 Six people
were killed in the neighborhood of the towns
Of Hume and Sprague, and a number SER
iously and some fatally injured. Humble
station, on the Pacific road, was destroyed,
only one house being left standing. DR..
Smiths house, three miles from Rich Hill,
was blown to atoms, aud the inmates badly
injured. Ali the stables and grauaries on
the Bruce place were demolished. At the
Miller farm, 3 miles west Of Sprague, a
splendid residence, barns and outhouses
were destroyed, niue cattle, number of
hogs, and other stock killed, and Mr. Miller
and his wife and baby were blown into the
we'll and drowned. A number of farm houses